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In Acting Skills for Lawyers, Mathis shares the secrets used by professional actors that can make the legal professional become a more skilled and dynamic lawyer, partner, manager, and person.

This book consists of 25 of the funniest law review articles from the past 50 years arranged in five categories: law students, law professors, lawyers, judges, and legal scholarship.

Barman is a hilariously honest portrayal of a young man’s trials as he progresses through law school and on to being a licensed attorney in New York.

This classic remains one of the books most frequently and strongly recommended for students to read when considering law school. It offers timeless advice to those considering law school as well as current students.

The Brethren is the first comprehensive behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action.

Broken Contract is a memoir of a Harvard law student detailing his three years of law school.

This text is another classic that documents 16 Americans who pursued their beliefs in their constitutional rights all the way to the Supreme Court. Their cases, decided by the Supreme Court between 1940 and 1986, highlight four major issues of our time -- religion, race, protest, and privacy.

Finding Your Voice in Law School provides strategies for succeeding at the Socratic Method in the classroom, mock trials and job interviews, as well as making arguments in a courtroom.

Clarence Earl Gideon is denied a court appointed attorney when he cannot afford one, so acting as his own lawyer, he is convicted and sent to jail. While in prison, he begins a hand-written campaign directed to the U.S. Supreme Court, contending that every defendant is entitled to legal representation. The Court agrees to hear Gideon's case, and, in a landmark decision, rules in his favor.

Hard-Nosed Advice delivers wisdom for law students with a clever sense of humor. This book communicates the expectations in the law classroom in an era of evolving classroom technologies, tightening job markets, and changing academic cultures.

Written by an award-winning law professor and humorist, The Law School Trip is a step-by-step guide to the surreal world of legal education.

Lawyer provides a history of lawyers from a lawyer’s perspective. Starting with Biblical times and working its way to the present, this book provides a scholarly, yet comical, look at the history of law and the lawyer’s role.

Letters from Law School is about the second year of law school, after the cold shock of the plunge. This book describes the struggle to come up for air after struggling through the first year.

In Letters to a Young Lawyer, Dershowitz distills the wealth of his experiences and the passion of his beliefs into essays about life, law, and what it means to be a good lawyer and a good person.

This book follows a personal injury lawyer in his conquests both in and out of the nation’s courtrooms as he labors to right the wrongs of an imperfect society and to speak for those who sometimes can’t speak for themselves.

Scott Turow's One L, describes his turbulent first year at Harvard Law. This book has become almost mandatory reading for anyone contemplating law school.

Written by Seattle University Law School Professor Lustbader, this book provides advice and direction for those considering law school. It also offers current law students guidance on the challenging transition into law school, strategies for success, and much more.

This book offers a Zen approach to succeeding in law school and beyond. The book also provides exercises and model answers to help students succeed on exams.

Students who employ the law school learning strategies offered in the book may improve their law school performances and increase their chances of passing the bar on their first try. They may also come to understand the practical implications of their hard work for the transition into the real world of practice.

This is another classic text for those considering law school, and a must read for every law student who is interested in trial advocacy and what it takes to be a successful trial lawyer.

Trial and Error details with painstaking honesty the twilight of John C. Tucker’s legal career, the difficult steps he took in learning the trial attorney's trade, and the reality of life as one of the country's leading civil and criminal trial lawyers.